Category: Tri-Town News

  • Nobel Peace Prize nominee to hold seminar

    HOWELL — Good News International will sponsor a three-day workshop with Nobel Peace Prize nominee the Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy. The workshop, “The Nonviolent Jesus, Our Only Hope,” will be held Aug. 18 from 7-9 p.m. and Aug. 19-20, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at St. Veronica School, Route 9 north. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel…

  • Fourth Walk with Joe set

    The fourth annual Walk with Joe will be held on Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. at Battlefield State Park, Route 33, Manalapan. The walk started in 2002 as an opportunity to come together and show support for the family of Patrick “Joe” Driscoll, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93; the plane hijacked by terrorists…

  • Police recover quads; arrest two suspects

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — Sometimes the good guys win. Lakewood police recovered Lori Cohen’s two stolen all-terrain vehicles one week after they were taken from the driveway of her home on Poplar Street. The grateful resident was ecstatic. “Thank you so much to the Lakewood police,” Cohen said…

  • Monmouth felt impact of war on home front

    World War II exhibit to debut on Aug. 23 at historical association BY ADAM RIBACK Correspondent BY ADAM RIBACKCorrespondent Monmouth County Historical Association museum curator Bernadette Rogoff prepares items for the upcoming “Home Front” exhibit, which will open to the public Aug. 23 FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Historical Association, 70 Court Street, has created…

  • Plan afoot to privatize counseling department

    Insurance payments and sliding scale expected to be used BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Plans are being finalized for Howell’s Youth and Family Counseling Services Department to begin operating under the auspices of Preferred Behavioral Health (PBH), a multi-county, nonprofit, private agency whose administrative office is in neighboring Brick Township. Howell…

  • Evidence of mosquito virus detected in Freehold sample

    Evidence of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus in Monmouth County has been detected through the joint efforts of the Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission (MCMEC), Rutgers Mosquito Research and Control and the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS). According to a press release, on Aug. 10, officials from the NJDHSS laboratory…

  • RAFT seeks change in Howell government

    Group members are seeking signatures for ballot initiative BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer As they advocate for a ward system of municipal government, a group of residents is taking steps toward changing Howell’s present form of government which has been in place since 1994. Under the banner “Get on the RAFT…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A band that includes musicians representing the Lakewood municipal band and students from the township’s summer band camp performs at the Strand Theater. For more on the youth band program, see page 10.

  • Lakewood Airport remains hub of activity

    Facility built among old chicken farms has survived six decades BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Lakewood Airport Director Bert Albert discusses the future of the 60-year-old airport on Cedar Bridge Avenue. The airport terminal is pictured at left. For 60 years, the Lakewood Airport has been the little engine of business…